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"The individual cannot bargain with the State. The State recognizes no coinage but power: and it issues the coins itself."

"I think American policy is pro‐Israel. If you take a vote in Congress, maybe you might get five people vote against any further aid to Israel or to continue its occupation. But that's about it. They c…"

"When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness."

"These two parties are so opposed to each other that nothing but a real miracle could cause them to become united. Many causes contribute to this animosity, and none more than the antipathy that exists…"

"A wise Government, allying itself with religion, would, as it were, consecrate society and sanctify the State. But how is this to be done? It is the problem of modern politics which has always most em…"

"It seems never to have occurred to Lenin that the root of these troubles lay in the fact that the whole system was based, as he constantly emphasized, on force and not on law. He demanded that people …"

"The fifth level might be called the genetic~societal level; it is typified by the plant, and it dominates the empirical world of the botanist."

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be bril…"

"We also remember the brilliant flight of the American super-genius Paul Morphy, who in a couple of years conquered both the New and the Old Worlds. He revealed a thunderous blend of pragmatism, aggres…"

"The police officer who puts their life on the line with no superpowers, no X-Ray vision, no super-strength, no ability to fly, and above all no invulnerability to bullets, reveals far greater virtue t…"

"The press must grow day in and day out — it is our Party's sharpest and most powerful weapon."

"If we feel less threatened today, if we feel as though we live in a non-violent society, it is only because we have ceded so much power over our daily lives to the state. Some call this reason, but we…"

"There is a name missing from that Al Jazeera report ...That name is Mohammad Mosaddegh, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran... deposed and imprisoned at the behest of powerful interests …"

"Impulses we attempt to strangle only develop stronger muscles."

"The controls fell easily to hand, and from there onto the floor."

"My great comfort is, that the temporary celebrity I have wrung from the world has been in the very teeth of all opinions and prejudices. I have flattered no ruling powers; I have never concealed a sin…"

"Quotations: I love them because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizedly wiser than oneself."

"Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence of any sufficiently great object to employ the first or overcome the…"

"The unity is brought about by force."

"The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses."